Urban astrophotography NYC iOptron SkyTracker Canon 60Da Orion Nebula M42
This is my first test with iOptron SkyTracker. Photo was done in NYC.
Light pollution in the New York City is crazy; by naked eyes you can see only some brightest stars (see for example my previous NYC photo on the Flickr). I don’t expect that will be able to get such details of the Orion Nebula.
Original idea was tested tracking of iOptron SkyTracker. For this photo I used Canon 60Da with Canon Telephoto Lens EF 200mm f2.8 L II USM. For 15 second with this lens and fixed tripod I got star tracks. So I decided for testing use exposure 15 second. For this exposure and with such light pollution (and 3 / 4 Moon near Orion) I choose small ISO-320.
Total number of shots was 204 (total time 51 min). I stacked images using DeepSkyStacker, and for post-processing used Photoshop. iOptron SkyTracker pretty much can handle Canon 60Da with 200mm lens and result not even expected for such extreme astrophotography conditions.
Urban astrophotography NYC iOptron SkyTracker Canon 60Da Orion Nebula M42
This is my first test with iOptron SkyTracker. Photo was done in NYC.
Light pollution in the New York City is crazy; by naked eyes you can see only some brightest stars (see for example my previous NYC photo on the Flickr). I don’t expect that will be able to get such details of the Orion Nebula.
Original idea was tested tracking of iOptron SkyTracker. For this photo I used Canon 60Da with Canon Telephoto Lens EF 200mm f2.8 L II USM. For 15 second with this lens and fixed tripod I got star tracks. So I decided for testing use exposure 15 second. For this exposure and with such light pollution (and 3 / 4 Moon near Orion) I choose small ISO-320.
Total number of shots was 204 (total time 51 min). I stacked images using DeepSkyStacker, and for post-processing used Photoshop. iOptron SkyTracker pretty much can handle Canon 60Da with 200mm lens and result not even expected for such extreme astrophotography conditions.